Carl Icahn, the founder of Icahn Enterprises and a billionaire investor, continues to hold a large position in GameStop Corp., nearly two years after he started building a short against…
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An Inside Look at the GameStop Story and the Revolution That Wasn't With Spencer Jakab
The GameStop short squeeze in early 2021 was the talk of the investing world. It had all the parts of a great story. It had some investors making massive profits,…
SEC GameStop Report Debunks Conspiracies
The eagerly-awaited SEC report on the January GameStop frenzy was released on Monday, and it debunks conspiracy theories spun out on social media as well as bolsters SEC Chair Gary…
GameStop Mania Leads to Scrutiny on Online Broker Payments
The recent GameStop saga is “prompting calls for regulators to reconsider a decades-old practice in the U.S. stock market” in which trading firms pay brokerages for the right to execute…
Trading Giant Citadel in Spotlight After GameStop Frenzy
While the GameStop story revealed how small investors were pumping up the stock in an attempt to defy Wall Street, a recent article in The Wall Street Journal reports that…
GameStop: What Happened, How it Happened, and Lessons We Can Learn From It (Ep. 72)
The rapid rise and fall of GameStop earlier this year was unlike anything many of us have seen in our investing careers. The stock’s price went from the single digits…
What GameStop’s Crazy Ride Can Teach Us About Investing
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — There’s a saying from Winston Churchill, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, and while the news around the Reddit message board, r/wallstreetbets,…